Iconic photographs like this one taken by Dorothea Lange help capture the anguish and despair of the era. The Depression had wide-ranging migratory impacts, from “Okies” who left the Dust Bowl to seek ...

The formal aim of social documentary was initially to keep records, but by the 1930s, it evolved to enlighten and educate. Photographers gathered images to develop a ‘picture story’—a ...

The Dust Bowl was infamous for its agricultural devastation in the Plains. It was also known for some of the most infamous heat waves, even floods, and not just in summer. From May 28-31 ...

An alarming resurgence of Dust Bowl conditions is now threatening multiple U.S. states with environmental and economic collapse. Climate experts are tracking a combination of extreme heat ...

The First 100 Years,” a new book that takes readers on a journey through the historic highway's life, demise and renaissance.

They include: -- Pope Clement VII in 1478 -- Dancer Isadora Duncan in 1877 -- Photographer Dorothea Lange in 1895 -- Actor John Wayne in 1907 -- Actor Jay Silverheels in 1912 -- Actor Peter ...

amid the Dust Bowl. That environmental catastrophe of the 1930s saw topsoil from drought-impacted farms in Oklahoma and Kansas form huge clouds of dust that were carried by strong winds to the ...

So far 2025 is only trailing the Dust Bowl years of 1935 and 1936. Last Saturday’s storm started near Bloomington, Illinois, before traveling northeastward. It was the first such storm of this ...

It's Saharan dust season in the Atlantic, when massive clouds of dust from Africa's Sahara Desert are carried westward by wind, sometimes reaching all the way to the United States. Where is the ...